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mollymortensen's review against another edition
3.0
Worst Artemis Fowl book yet! I don't even think I'm going to keep it, because if I do a reread I'll probably skip this one. (Luckily, it's totally skippable.)
Artemis Fowl (The character) is what makes these books. His character, intellect, and somewhat lack of morals. All of that is ruined in Atlantis Complex. Artemis has OCD, hallucinations, and paranoia. As if that wasn't bad enough, then he turned into Orion, an overly moral dimwit. This isn't Artemis! Why oh why did he do this to me? (Also, I'm pretty sure in his crazy state he spent all his money, so poor and stupid. Just no.)
I really don't like Artemis's mom. She's controlling and manipulative, and keeps trying to change him. (She's probably the reason for his Atlantis Complex, constantly making him feel guilty for the mesmers.)
This time Foaly is along for the adventure with Holly and Artemis. His reaction to all of the danger was funny and I'm glad he was in it more.
Butler and Juliet had their own adventure in Cancun. I'm still not fond of Juliet and those parts were just boring.
There's actually a new villain! He was a complex character. (Not just a crazy pixie who wants to rule everybody.) And I liked how he was made relatable with his wife. Even though he was the most evil villain yet. He totally didn't care how many people he killed. (and there were a lot of deaths.)
Artemis's last plot was a clever one and made this book not a complete waste of time. (I think if he'd just had the multiple personalities part of Atlantis Complex it could've even been funny. But the paranoia and counting was too much.)
Artemis Fowl (The character) is what makes these books. His character, intellect, and somewhat lack of morals. All of that is ruined in Atlantis Complex. Artemis has OCD, hallucinations, and paranoia. As if that wasn't bad enough, then he turned into Orion, an overly moral dimwit. This isn't Artemis! Why oh why did he do this to me? (Also, I'm pretty sure in his crazy state he spent all his money, so poor and stupid. Just no.)
I really don't like Artemis's mom. She's controlling and manipulative, and keeps trying to change him. (She's probably the reason for his Atlantis Complex, constantly making him feel guilty for the mesmers.)
This time Foaly is along for the adventure with Holly and Artemis. His reaction to all of the danger was funny and I'm glad he was in it more.
Butler and Juliet had their own adventure in Cancun. I'm still not fond of Juliet and those parts were just boring.
There's actually a new villain! He was a complex character. (Not just a crazy pixie who wants to rule everybody.) And I liked how he was made relatable with his wife. Even though he was the most evil villain yet. He totally didn't care how many people he killed. (and there were a lot of deaths.)
Artemis's last plot was a clever one and made this book not a complete waste of time. (I think if he'd just had the multiple personalities part of Atlantis Complex it could've even been funny. But the paranoia and counting was too much.)
lumberjill314's review against another edition
5.0
4.5 stars. This series has come quite a ways! Sad there's only one book left.
grey_skiess's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
lelevex's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
bedknobsandbookmarks's review against another edition
1.0
This series started out so strong, but man does it take a dive off the deep end in these later books.
mikime's review
3.0
Another adventure for Artemis and his human and fairy friends. This time Artemis is not his usual self, and even ends up risking his friends' lives rather than plotting a good plan to save the day and win the mysterious enemy that is taking advantage of his condition to carry out their own evil plans. But for the young genius and his friends even bad circumstances and weird states of mind can be turned against the enemy and used to save the world....
booksnorkel's review against another edition
2.0
This book took me a long time to read. I started it when it first came out and lost interest. Now that I've been able to work it into my book schedule I took the time and started it again.
This book is one that you read aren't happy but want to get through it to read the next one in hopes that it is better. A lot of things happen that you know will affect the fairies and humans, but you have to wait for the next book to see what these changes are.
I hope that this series ends soon, because I fear Artemis is losing me
This book is one that you read aren't happy but want to get through it to read the next one in hopes that it is better. A lot of things happen that you know will affect the fairies and humans, but you have to wait for the next book to see what these changes are.
I hope that this series ends soon, because I fear Artemis is losing me
teyn's review against another edition
2.0
Disappointed by this installment. Eoin Colfer is too good to stoop to "fairy" misrepresentations of and outdated terms for a mental illness. This book took forever to get going and then all the action was crammed into 30 pages at the end with an abrupt climax. I might be willing to forgive that in the first of a series, but the penultimate book? No.
literarialuminaria's review against another edition
1.0
This was a ROUGH one to get through. If I were anyone else, I'd have DNF, but I hate not finishing a book. It was just so so so so boring. I normally finish one of the books from this series in a couples hours but it has taken me *months* of forcing myself to read (and then losing interest 30 seconds later) to complete this one.
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